Built for two diaspora founders. Now operating under a new name, in both app stores, thirty days after the licence was signed.
The call
WeHay started with two Mauritanian founders living in the United States. They wanted to launch a transport business back home — and they knew exactly what was missing. Existing apps picked one of the three habits people actually use to get around Nouakchott: instant rides, fare haggling, or zone-to-zone carpool to the market or to work. They wanted all three under one roof, and they wanted to operate it remotely from across an ocean.
We built it the way you build with founders who can see the product clearly but can't fly home to debug it.
What we did
We modelled the driver's day, not the product taxonomy. One app, one wallet, one trust layer; the trip type adapts. An instant ride uses category-based pricing (Economy, Comfort, Premium). A negotiated ride opens a brief auction — the rider proposes a fare, nearby drivers counter, the rider picks. Carpool is built around real neighbourhood hubs an admin can define on a map, with seats published per trip and recurring weekly schedules for the commuters who run the same route twice a day.
The quiet feature that holds the whole thing together is a wallet that solves the cash-change problem. If a driver can't make change, the difference credits the rider's wallet and debits the driver's — automatically applied to the next ride or recovered from the next earnings. The market's daily friction, made invisible.
Everything is bilingual, Arabic and French, all the way down to the error codes. The admin can change pricing, commission, negotiation bounds, and carpool zones without a redeploy.
Where it sits now
The platform shipped and launched with the original founders. The story it sits inside is bigger than the code: they were detained by US immigration and had to stop operating it themselves.
Then the platform did the thing a platform is supposed to do. It was acquired under licence by Coursak, who took it from signed contract to live on the App Store and Google Play in thirty days — driver app, rider app, admin and all. The build was operator-ready out of the box. The handover was the proof.
A second licence is available now. If you're running a transport operation in a comparable market — Maghreb, West Africa, the Gulf, anywhere WhatsApp is the channel and three transport habits coexist — this is a platform you can be live on in a month, not a year.
Node, MongoDB, Redis, Socket.IO, Expo for both apps, React + Ant Design for the admin, Next.js for the landing.
